'Confusion and inconsistencies': How US plans to distract public from real truth about Boston

FBI investigators and Watertown Police officer walk in parking lot as they investigate the shooting scene near the boat where bombing suspect was hiding from police on Franklin Street on April 20, 2013 in Watertown, Massachusetts (AFP Photo / Kevork Djansezian)

The initial questions about the Boston bombing are behind us, but former FBI employee Sibel Edmonds believes the pursuit of truth will eventually lead to a far more secret agenda by the US, which she reveals to RT.

The United States is having to quickly wake up to the
possibility that Chechens are not the ‘freedom fighters’ Western
media has been categorizing them as, especially when it came to the
Republic’s relationship to Russia. But even the newly formed
perceptions may not be enough when it comes to investigating the
motives and planning behind the Boston bombing, according to
Edmonds, who is also a founder of the National Security
Whistleblowers Coalition.

With the dust somewhat settled after the capture of the younger
suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Edmonds believes there will only be
more unanswered questions in an investigation already plagued by
obvious inconsistencies and falsities, which she recounts at
length.

RT:We've learned in the last hour that Russia warned the FBI about the older Tsarnaev brother
and his potential links with radical Islamists, but the FBI found
nothing suspicious. How is that possible?

Sibel Edmonds: Actually, we predicted that the unnamed
foreign country [Western media didn’t name the source immediately]
was in fact Russia, two days ago. We have too little facts, too
much false information and speculations. But just look at the
period they are talking about. When you listen to the suspect’s
mother, she’s talking about a period of three to five years.
According to FBI officials, they received this information, this
warning, in 2011. So we have that inconsistency right there. The
other important inconsistency that we should pay attention to is
the mother’s description of FBI mannerisms and conversation with
the suspects and the family when they were visiting them for the
last three to five years. That fits exactly the recruitment style
of the intelligence community. When you go to the suspects, and one
moment you’re saying “We know you’re decent, we know you’re
doing nothing wrong, we know you’re good”, and the next minute
they’re saying “You can be dangerous”, right after receiving
that information from the Russian government, to threaten them with
that information for what purpose – to recruit them as informants
or for other agendas.

RT:We spoke to the mother last night. She said there
is no way on earth they could have been involved in a heinous
crime like this, that she knew everything about them and they could
not have been potential terrorists. However, could there be another
side to these people that they didn’t even let their mother know,
is that not feasible?

SE: Well, again, we don’t have real information from our
source in the last 48hours. I found out that they had been
associating the brothers – especially the older one –with very
wealthy individual Turkish persons, some of them students in
Boston, some businessmen…really modern people. And we haven’t
received any information that they [the brothers] had been
associating with Chechens, even the radicals. So that itself is
another major inconsistency in this story.

RT:Similarities are being drawn between the 'pressure
cooker' bombs used in Boston and those which Al Qaeda gets
English-speaking terrorists to use. Just how much does this prove
in terms of the bombers' links with the terrorist group?

SE: Again, it’s way too early to comment on this and I
think that whole notion right now sounds really, really weak.
Because the US government, when it is convenient, one minute talk
about how sophisticated Al Qaeda has become – in fact they’re as
sophisticated as the NSA [US National Security Agency] – they are
talking about their ability to obtain laptop, or suitcase bombs,
nuclear bombs…and the next moment they are talking about this
amateurish home-made ability. So, as far as the government is
concerned, I think it’s too early to buy this either from the US
media or the government.

This situation is really similar to the Bin Laden shooting.
Every day the story changed. And this is what we are going to see
in the next few days. They are going to change the story, they are
going to throw so much confusion and inconsistencies and
conflicting data that no one is going to figure out what actually
happened, especially if the second suspect dies.

RT:There's been a tendency in the Western media to
portray armed groups in the Chechnya as freedom fighters. Is that
going to change at all after this?

SE: We all have to really look at the timing of this,
because again the US media is portraying this incident by itself.
It’s not putting it in the context of things that have been
happening in the past – let’s say one year so – or recent stuff –
we had this case of NGOs being shut down by the Russian government,
which was a very smart move, because we know that the majority of
these NGOs have CIA agendas, as they’re operated and managed by CIA
people. And this is one way of infiltrating Russia by the US
government, the CIA.

So, if you start putting these in context and also add the fact
that Russia has been the biggest obstacle for the United States to
get in and directly attack Syria – that’s when you start to see the
bigger picture and that’s what the people should be paying
attention to. Again, the false information that is being put forth
by US media is that since the fall of the Soviet Union the United
States has refrained from intervening in the Russia-Chechnya
situation. And that is purely false. Since mid-1990’s, the US
directly, or through Turkey has been arming, training, managing,
orchestrating not only Chechens but also other factions in the
region – and we are looking at Central Asia and the
Caucasus.

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